by Chak Sum Li

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by Lydia Sung

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by henrietta walmark

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by Elaine Carey

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This collection has two purposes. The first is to collect articles important to my research. The second purpose is to use this as a tool to teach undergraduates basic historical research using newspaper. Since 2004, I have been researching and writing a book on women and drug trafficking from 1900 to 1980. As a historian, I used newspaper to initially find women. By reading the New York Times, I was able to pull names of women drug bosses to further research. Currently, I am teaching a class entitled, A History of Crime in the Americas in which many of the students are using the New York Times in their research.